Call to Duty

✓ Featured lyrical solo trumpet with brief solo moments for piccolo, oboe, bassoon, and clarinets

Take your audience on a new adventure. Call to Duty is an original Grade 4 work for wind ensemble that explores anticipation, patriotism, anxiety, and inner conflict as a young person faces the prospect of going to war. Rich scoring, memorable themes, and dramatic contrasts carry the ensemble from quiet reflection to a powerful and triumphant conclusion.

Difficulty: Grade 4

Appropriate for advanced high school, college, honor, and community bands.

Duration: 6:13

Style: Dramatic • Contemporary • Cinematic

Perfect for:

• Festival performances
• Concert openers
• Concert feature works
  

Instrumentation

Piccolo(opening solo)

2 Flutes

2 Oboes

3 Bb Clarinets

Bass Clarinet

2 Bassoons

2 Alto Saxophones

Tenor Saxophone

Baritone Saxophone

5 Trumpets(1 featured lyrical solo)

4 Horns

3 Trombones

Euphonium

Tuba

Double Bass

Timpani

Snare Drum(opening solo)

Bass Drum

Suspended/Crash Cymbal

Orchestra Bells